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An Afghani asylum seeker who raped a vulnerable teenager in a brutal attack at a town park after claiming he would be her "boyfriend" was facing a jail sentence today. ‌

Rapualla Ahmadze was caught on CCTV walking the streets of Elgin, in Moray, in the early hours of the morning before approaching his victim sitting on a bench. ‌

The teenager, then aged 17, later told police that the stranger, who was bearded and spoke with a foreign accent, stopped in front of her and asked if she had a boyfriend. She said when she replied that she did not he "told me that he was my boyfriend now". ‌

The victim said she was struggling with mental health issues at the time and sometimes went for a walk a night and listened to her music.

He pulled her up off the bench and st

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